How the Proposed Intervention will Improve the Quality of Care, Enhance Patient Safety, and Reduce Costs to the System and Individual

The race toward antibiotic stewardship requires the utilization of best practices in infection management to prevent the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains. The proposed intervention is to educate the elderly groups and their families on infection control standards. These standards include rational use of antibiotics and frequent communication with caregivers on their medications and aspects of their disease to prevent misuse. By educating these communities on these measures, they will remain accountable when using antibiotics, improving their safety and preventing them from incurring costs that they would have incurred treating antibiotic-resistant infections. Iwu-Jaja et al. (2021) note that standards that improve infection control by encouraging the prudent use of antibiotics considerably lessen the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains. This ensures a better guarantee of patient safety and quality care as healthcare systems and organizations will no longer be confronted with complex presentations that are out of reach for most conventional antibiotics. Additionally, administrative costs accustomed to these complex presentations will considerably be lessened, thereby lowering healthcare costs.

Resources from reputable journals and guidelines from reputable agencies such as the CDC are benchmark data sources on antibiotic resistance. The provisions from these resources informed, in part, the plan I proposed to address antibiotic resistance. These resources detail resistance patterns, exemplify resistant strains, and outline address measures. Information obtained from these resources can be used to inform antibiotic stewardship programs to enhance patients’ safety and quality of care. Healthcare organizations can, therefore, leverage these resources to guide their efforts in managing this problem.